Please print out copies of these four poems by Seamus Heaney to class on Monday:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1979/sep/27/the-toome-road/

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177017

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/181384

http://creativewritingguild.com/sl/analysis/punishment-seamus-heaney-full-text/

How do Vladimir and Estragon communicate? What patterns do you notice in their exchanges?

What do we know about Godot? Who does he seem to be? Don’t get all symbolic on me–focus on what the text tells us!

Hi everyone–welcome to the online discussion for the day! I’m going to post here three questions. I’d like each of you to answer one, using a quotation from Waiting for Godot, and then, between now and Wednesday at classtime,  I’d like to you reply to one answer that a classmate has written.

Look for images of mobility and immobility in Act I. What effect does on of these images have on Beckett’s text?

https://spad1.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree/

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